Caroline Varin
@carovarin.bsky.social
Financial journalist covering energy and climate @argusmedia, ex @afpfr. Cargobiker, drummer. Currently reading Saga and A different kind of power 🕊️
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The #COP30 Presidency’s Mutirão consultations quickly descended into turmoil, with groups diverging on whether to address the issue of fossil fuel phaseout, among others
They continued consulting into the night (1/2)
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
#climate #climatechange
They continued consulting into the night (1/2)
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
#climate #climatechange
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The #COP30 Presidency’s Mutirão consultations quickly descended into turmoil, with groups diverging on whether to address the issue of fossil fuel phaseout, among others
They continued consulting into the night (1/2)
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
#climate #climatechange
They continued consulting into the night (1/2)
Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/belem-un-cli...
#climate #climatechange
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In technical-level negotiations agreement was found on issues related to carbon markets and loss and damage, but many other matters remain outstanding
#COP30
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
In technical-level negotiations agreement was found on issues related to carbon markets and loss and damage, but many other matters remain outstanding
#COP30
#COP30
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions
The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.
www.politico.eu
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.
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Minister Irene Vélez-Torres (Colombia) and Minister Sophie Hermans (the Netherlands) made history today. In Minister Hermans' words: it's time to "make good on our promises."
Watch the whole press conference at www.youtube.com/watch?v=587Y... 🔗
Watch the whole press conference at www.youtube.com/watch?v=587Y... 🔗
Announcement of First International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels
YouTube video by Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Minister Irene Vélez-Torres (Colombia) and Minister Sophie Hermans (the Netherlands) made history today. In Minister Hermans' words: it's time to "make good on our promises."
Watch the whole press conference at www.youtube.com/watch?v=587Y... 🔗
Watch the whole press conference at www.youtube.com/watch?v=587Y... 🔗
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▶️ WATCH: Ministers from Colombia and the Netherlands announce their joint Conference for the Phaseout of Fossil Fuels 🔥
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
▶️ WATCH: Ministers from Colombia and the Netherlands announce their joint Conference for the Phaseout of Fossil Fuels 🔥
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Two cruise ships tower over a sleepy port in the Brazilian Amazon where some 50,000 people are gathering for a UN climate conference. With capacity for 6,000 people, the vessels are here to provide extra room for foreign delegates.
u.afp.com/Sn38
u.afp.com/Sn38
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Two cruise ships tower over a sleepy port in the Brazilian Amazon where some 50,000 people are gathering for a UN climate conference. With capacity for 6,000 people, the vessels are here to provide extra room for foreign delegates.
u.afp.com/Sn38
u.afp.com/Sn38
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China's formal submission of its new climate targets leaves out the commitment made in 2021 to gradually reduce coal consumption in 2026-30. It does reiterate the commitment to reduce carbon intensity, which is currently badly off track, but doesn't provide any progress update.
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
China's formal submission of its new climate targets leaves out the commitment made in 2021 to gradually reduce coal consumption in 2026-30. It does reiterate the commitment to reduce carbon intensity, which is currently badly off track, but doesn't provide any progress update.
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Most kids don’t really want another iPad. They want to play outside as carefree as they do it in a virtual world (and cross the road without getting ran over).
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Most kids don’t really want another iPad. They want to play outside as carefree as they do it in a virtual world (and cross the road without getting ran over).
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Lahore was ranked the world's most polluted major city, according to Swiss monitoring group IQAir, as thick smog engulfed Pakistan’s second-largest city.
November 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Lahore was ranked the world's most polluted major city, according to Swiss monitoring group IQAir, as thick smog engulfed Pakistan’s second-largest city.
We have a team of great people at Argus looking at #climate through the energy and commodities lens, and all climate-summit-news. It’s busy and a “side hustle” 😉 for many who are also reporting daily on markets.
Here is the link if you want to check it out : www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
Here is the link if you want to check it out : www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
Climate Change & UN COP Meetings | Policy Insights & Market Impact | Argus Media
Explore climate change and UN COP meetings. Gain insights into climate policy, net zero, energy transition, environmental regulations, and commodity markets on Argus Media.
www.argusmedia.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
We have a team of great people at Argus looking at #climate through the energy and commodities lens, and all climate-summit-news. It’s busy and a “side hustle” 😉 for many who are also reporting daily on markets.
Here is the link if you want to check it out : www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
Here is the link if you want to check it out : www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
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Journalists, elevate your coverage by joining our Talking Shop webinars! This week, we'll be talking with 3 Brazilian reporters about how they are gearing up to cover the upcoming UN climate summit, #COP30, in Belem. buff.ly/BCFgjiB
October 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Journalists, elevate your coverage by joining our Talking Shop webinars! This week, we'll be talking with 3 Brazilian reporters about how they are gearing up to cover the upcoming UN climate summit, #COP30, in Belem. buff.ly/BCFgjiB
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Le dessin du jour, par Salch
September 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Le dessin du jour, par Salch
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Gaza : une commission de l'ONU accuse Israël de "génocide"
Gaza : une commission de l'ONU accuse Israël de "génocide"
Une commission d'enquête des Nations unies a conclu dans un document publié mardi qu'Israël commet un génocide dans la bande de Gaza et que les plus hauts responsables israéliens, dont le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu, ont incité à de tels actes.
f24.my
September 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Gaza : une commission de l'ONU accuse Israël de "génocide"
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At 3.47%, French borrowing costs are above those of longtime Eurozone troubled borrower Greece at 3.37%, and closing in on Italy at 3.51% — two of the borrowers long deemed riskier by global investors. on.ft.com/45VOu0T
September 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
At 3.47%, French borrowing costs are above those of longtime Eurozone troubled borrower Greece at 3.37%, and closing in on Italy at 3.51% — two of the borrowers long deemed riskier by global investors. on.ft.com/45VOu0T
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🤔 Tube strike forcing you to rethink the commute?
🚴 Don't put yourself through the painfully slow bus or the painfully overpacked train - make the most of the September sun and ride into work!
You never know, you might actually enjoy it... 👀
🚴 Don't put yourself through the painfully slow bus or the painfully overpacked train - make the most of the September sun and ride into work!
You never know, you might actually enjoy it... 👀
September 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🤔 Tube strike forcing you to rethink the commute?
🚴 Don't put yourself through the painfully slow bus or the painfully overpacked train - make the most of the September sun and ride into work!
You never know, you might actually enjoy it... 👀
🚴 Don't put yourself through the painfully slow bus or the painfully overpacked train - make the most of the September sun and ride into work!
You never know, you might actually enjoy it... 👀
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Honduras & Brazil shelving new coal plants shows how Latin America & the Caribbean are already driving the clean energy transition.
Our briefing explores how these lessons can help the Brazilian #COP30 Presidency lead global progress on #ClimateAction.
www.e3g.org/publications...
Our briefing explores how these lessons can help the Brazilian #COP30 Presidency lead global progress on #ClimateAction.
www.e3g.org/publications...
Navigating the clean energy transition at COP30
This briefing reflects insights from the high-level Latin America and Caribbean Regional Dialogue on Energy Transition and Climate Action held at the 2025 Panama Climate Week (PCW), convened by the…
www.e3g.org
August 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Honduras & Brazil shelving new coal plants shows how Latin America & the Caribbean are already driving the clean energy transition.
Our briefing explores how these lessons can help the Brazilian #COP30 Presidency lead global progress on #ClimateAction.
www.e3g.org/publications...
Our briefing explores how these lessons can help the Brazilian #COP30 Presidency lead global progress on #ClimateAction.
www.e3g.org/publications...
Maybe we should introduce goats on #Edinburgh roads as an effective speed calming measures @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social? Few examples in mind, including in newly built areas where the council had prioritised motorists over other transports.
Goats could get those pavement weeds under control too 😇.
Goats could get those pavement weeds under control too 😇.
🇫🇷 VIDEO: Stray goats run riot near Marseille
Thousands of stray goats now wander villages freely on the outskirts of Marseille. As the herd keeps multiplying, so too does the debate over whether the goats are a loveable quirk or a problem that needs urgent control.
Thousands of stray goats now wander villages freely on the outskirts of Marseille. As the herd keeps multiplying, so too does the debate over whether the goats are a loveable quirk or a problem that needs urgent control.
August 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Maybe we should introduce goats on #Edinburgh roads as an effective speed calming measures @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social? Few examples in mind, including in newly built areas where the council had prioritised motorists over other transports.
Goats could get those pavement weeds under control too 😇.
Goats could get those pavement weeds under control too 😇.
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"We at UNEP will continue, undeterred, to support Member States taking this most critical mandate forward." - UNEP Executive Director @ingerandersen.bsky.social as #INC5 talks for a #PlasticsTreaty adjourned without consensus.
Closing remarks: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Closing remarks: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
August 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"We at UNEP will continue, undeterred, to support Member States taking this most critical mandate forward." - UNEP Executive Director @ingerandersen.bsky.social as #INC5 talks for a #PlasticsTreaty adjourned without consensus.
Closing remarks: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Closing remarks: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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📊 Greenpeace just tested the air in Geneva (where current Global #PlasticsTreaty talks are happening) & found microplastics floating around in all of it.
Report: act.gp/41xtlYc
✍️ Let’s be louder than oil/plastic lobbyists >> act.gp/45MlvfM
🎨 Alvin J. Post
Report: act.gp/41xtlYc
✍️ Let’s be louder than oil/plastic lobbyists >> act.gp/45MlvfM
🎨 Alvin J. Post
August 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
📊 Greenpeace just tested the air in Geneva (where current Global #PlasticsTreaty talks are happening) & found microplastics floating around in all of it.
Report: act.gp/41xtlYc
✍️ Let’s be louder than oil/plastic lobbyists >> act.gp/45MlvfM
🎨 Alvin J. Post
Report: act.gp/41xtlYc
✍️ Let’s be louder than oil/plastic lobbyists >> act.gp/45MlvfM
🎨 Alvin J. Post
All eyes on the EU with two months left to come up with an ambitious 2035 target to make the deadline for the UN synthesis report, key for #Cop30 talks.
"If Europe is not able to manage that, nobody will," German climate action minister Carsten Schneider said.
www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
"If Europe is not able to manage that, nobody will," German climate action minister Carsten Schneider said.
www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
EU ministers discuss 2035, 2040 climate target setting | Latest Market News
The EU needs to set its 2040 climate target and derive its 2035 nationally determined contribution (NDC) — climate plan — to the Paris climate agreement from it, European climate commissioner Wopke Ho...
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July 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
All eyes on the EU with two months left to come up with an ambitious 2035 target to make the deadline for the UN synthesis report, key for #Cop30 talks.
"If Europe is not able to manage that, nobody will," German climate action minister Carsten Schneider said.
www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
"If Europe is not able to manage that, nobody will," German climate action minister Carsten Schneider said.
www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
"By 2050, about half of the European population may be exposed to high or very high risk of heat stress during summer, particularly in Southern Europe and increasingly in Eastern Europe and Western and Central Europe," the World Meteorological Organization said today.
wmo.int/media/news/e...
wmo.int/media/news/e...
Extreme heat grips many parts of Europe
As a result of human-induced climate change, extreme heat is becoming more frequent and intense. Warnings from National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and coordinated heat-health action plan...
wmo.int
July 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
"By 2050, about half of the European population may be exposed to high or very high risk of heat stress during summer, particularly in Southern Europe and increasingly in Eastern Europe and Western and Central Europe," the World Meteorological Organization said today.
wmo.int/media/news/e...
wmo.int/media/news/e...
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The biggest beneficiary of Pontevedra’s pioneering vision has been children, with 80% of kids aged 6 to 12 now walking alone to school each morning. The thriving city has attracted 15,000 new inhabitants, mostly young families from northwest Spain, with the population of kids under 14 growing by 8%.
June 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The biggest beneficiary of Pontevedra’s pioneering vision has been children, with 80% of kids aged 6 to 12 now walking alone to school each morning. The thriving city has attracted 15,000 new inhabitants, mostly young families from northwest Spain, with the population of kids under 14 growing by 8%.
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#Edinburgh/#Lothians community/microbusiness?
🙋 Can we help U buy a #cargobike?
-> spokes.org.uk/documents/advice/cargo-bikes
@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @sw20.info @laidbackbikes.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @portyenergy.bsky.social @helenrambler.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social
🙋 Can we help U buy a #cargobike?
-> spokes.org.uk/documents/advice/cargo-bikes
@edi.bike @edfoc.bsky.social @sw20.info @laidbackbikes.bsky.social @edinburghminute.bsky.social @portyenergy.bsky.social @helenrambler.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Former (shortest-serving) French minister Michel Barnier resurfaced in Brussels. #naturalhabitat
Very good to welcome Michel Barnier today in Brussels.
We discussed climate and industrial policies, and European and national politics.
We discussed climate and industrial policies, and European and national politics.
June 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Former (shortest-serving) French minister Michel Barnier resurfaced in Brussels. #naturalhabitat
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We'll be participating in the celebrations by sharing some helpful blogs with a focus on cycling, starting with this one, the benefits of cycling for children and adults 👇
buff.ly/cPXDy0O
buff.ly/cPXDy0O
The benefits of cycling for children and families
Why cycling is good for families and children and advice on the best time to start enjoying the benefits of cycling as a family.
www.sustrans.org.uk
June 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
We'll be participating in the celebrations by sharing some helpful blogs with a focus on cycling, starting with this one, the benefits of cycling for children and adults 👇
buff.ly/cPXDy0O
buff.ly/cPXDy0O